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Streetballers
Streetballers (2009)

Directed by Matthew Scott Krentz
Origin USA
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Matthew Scott Krentz

Two basketball players are drawn into the lures of crime and gambling on the courts of St. Louis, Missouri tough Northside neighborhoods. Constantly searching for sanity in the midst of alcoholism, racism, and drugs, John Hogan (played by the film director Matthew Scott Krentz)and Jacob Whitmore (played by Jimmy McKinney) find release and therapy while competing at one of the most competitive street courts in the U.S.
The Winning Season
The Winning Season (2009)

Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Sam Rockwell, Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios, Rooney Mara, Emma Roberts, Margo Martindale

Bill (Sam Rockwell), a divorced deadbeat dad, is estranged from his teenage daughter Molly (Shana Dowdeswell). His friend Terry (Rob Corddry) is a high school principal who gives him a job as the coach for the girls' varsity basketball team. Bill begins to regret his decision when he meets the girls on the team: Abbie (Emma Roberts), Tamra (Meaghan Witri), Mindy (Melanie Hinkle), Wendy (Rooney Mara), Lisa (Shareeka Epps), and Kathy (Emily Rios). They improve under Bill's coaching and advise him on his relationship with his daughter, but their winning season does not protect the girls from their real world difficulties.
Playoff
Playoff (2011)
, 1h47
Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Danny Huston, Hanns Zischler, Amira Casar, Max Riemelt, Mark Waschke, Smadi Wolfman

The movie tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team into European winners.
Salaam Dunk
Salaam Dunk (2011)
, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports

The film follows the women's basketball team of the The American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUIS) for a full academic year. The players discover what it means to be students, athletes and friends in the difficult political, economic, cultural and ethnic/sectarian divide and how basketball unites them around a game. The film follows the lives of some of the AUIS' woman basketball players, notably those of Laylan (team captain), Enji, Ola and Safa and their basketball coach Ryan Bubalo, who is the university's contractual English language teacher. The film is a testament to the perseverance of a handful of young Iraqi women, it is a story of triumph in the face of chaos and adversity.
Benji
Benji (2012)
, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports

This film documents the November 1984 death of Wilson, who was regarded as the best basketball player in the country, but was shot the day before his senior season of high school basketball was to begin and died the next morning. The film documents the cultural ripple effects of his life and death. It documents the contemporaneous impact of the death on those closest to Wilson, such as Anderson, and the long-run influence of his death on Chicago's youth, such as Parker.
Dream Team 1935
Dream Team 1935 (2012)
, 2h
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Vilis Daudziņš

The first European Championship in basketball is about to take place in Geneva. The event is organized by FIBA, the newly established international basketball organization and European national teams are going to play each other for the first time. Each wants the honor of being the first European champion.
Fierrot le pou
Fierrot le pou (1990)

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Mathieu Kassovitz

An adolescent loner meets an attractive young woman in a gymnasium and tries to impress her with his skill as a basketball player. Unfortunately, his skill is virtually non-existent and his futile attempts to net the ball only embarrasses him further. Still, he is determined to succeed by imagining he is a black basketball player.
Woman Basketball Player No. 5
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957)
, 1h33
Directed by Xie Jin
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Qin Yi

Before the establishment of PRC, Lin Jie, the daughter of the boss of East China Basketball Team in Shanghai, falls in love with the leading player of the team, Tian Zhenhua. During a game against foreign marine soldiers, the boss takes bribery and orders the team to lose the game. Due to his nationalist dignity, however, Tian leads the team to victory, against the will of the boss. As a result, the boss hires thugs to beat Tian, and also forces his daughter to marry a rich man. 18 years later, Tian is now the coach of Shanghai Woman Basketball Team. Xiao Jie, the daughter of Lin, is a girl with basketball talent but also has prejudice towards sports career. Tian educates and helps her with patience. Xiao Jie was injured in a game and hospitalized. Tian and Lin accidentally reunite when both visiting Xiao Jie and their love is reborn. Xiao Jie is later elected into national team and will participate in international games.
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island (1981)
, 1h30
Directed by Peter Baldwin, Peter Baldwin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Basketball films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Dawn Wells, Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, David Ruprecht

The former castaways own and operate a vacation resort on the formerly-deserted island, called "The Castaways", which was introduced in the previous film, The Castaways on Gilligan's Island. The Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling troupe of merry basketball players, are on a plane ride over the Pacific Ocean when it has engine trouble and they are forced into an emergency landing onto Gilligan's Island. After a brief time struggling in the jungle, they are discovered by Gilligan and Skipper and welcomed to "The Castaways." Meanwhile, J.J. Pierson, a corporate raider and the worst business rival of Thurston Howell III, has a plan to bamboozle the owners of The Castaways (Gilligan and his friends) into signing over ownership to him, as the island contains "supremium", an ore which provides large sources of energy. Eventually Gilligan and the Skipper uncover the conspiracy, with Pierson agreeing to tear up the fraudulent contracts if the Globetrotters play his team, the New Invincibles, which is a team of robot players. Notable sports broadcasters Chick Hearn and Stu Nahan appear as part of the basketball game scene, with Hearn calling the play-by-play action of the climactic showdown. The Globetrotters have no idea how to defeat a team of robots, until Gilligan unknowingly says they have not done any of their fancy tricks, causing the Professor to give a halftime pep talk to the Globetrotters that the New Invincibles would be caught off-guard. The Globetrotters start scoring against the New Invincibles, but when injuries sideline a couple of the players, Gilligan and Skipper must serve as substitute Globetrotters.
Double Teamed!
Double Teamed! (2002)
, 1h45
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Children's films
Actors Mackenzie Phillips, Teal Redmann, Joey Miyashima, Nick Searcy, Chris Olivero, Iyari Limon

Twins Heather and Heidi Burge are forced by their overly-pushy father to leave their former school and attend a different school to have better chances at college scholarships. Heidi, however, tended to think that she was athletically inferior to Heather, and in an attempt to get out of Heather's shadow, she joined in a school play.
The Fab Five
The Fab Five (2011)

Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports
Actors Ice Cube, Chuck D

Un lycée est mis à mal par le comportement rebelle et outrancier de cinq pom-pom girls, parmi lesquelles figure la fille du principal. Le coach essaie de leur faire entendre raison, mais toutes ne sont pas prêtes à s'amender.